Medicine: Late to Bed

Nobody was getting much sleep last week at the home of University of
Munich Pediatrician Dr. Theodor Hellbrügge, 40. Reason: after
tiptoeing through three clinics and two orphans' homes to record 13,248
separate observations on the sleeping habits of youngsters. Hellbrügge
and a team of researchers concluded that children sleep less and need
less sleep than many parents believe. While Hellbrügge's findings are
already well accepted by most pediatricians, angry mothers and fathers
jammed his phone well into the night with complaints that their
youngsters were using his findings to extort late bedtimes....